Other than the fact that that was unbearable crap and I want that 37 seconds of my life back, I have no idea what’s going on here.

Clever editing; no more, no less. The incongruity of overdubbing death metal on top of a white-bread pop starlet just struck me as very funny.

P.S. I bet digg gets it.

Do you mean to imply that both the sound and the video would have been taken seriously as entertainment independently? Seems to me it’s better to have all the crap in one place so I can not watch it simultaneously.

See, leave out the age-dependent terminology and even I get it.

And what the hell was that thing she was wearing? She looked like Scarlett O’Hara on speed.

KTK:

Believe it or not, yes. And rounding out the Trifecta of Awful, the death metal band that’s dubbed over top of her is Under0ath, a Christian death metal band!

LarryE:

I think it’s supposed to be a wedding dress, and I think it’s supposed to make sense to someone who’s seen the video.

I get it.

I’m ambivalent about Clarkson, and no fan of death metal. So, I can’t say I actually enjoyed it for what it was. But, I appreciate the fact that it was done well. Because, when it comes to shit like this, it’s all about the technical execution. Anybody can come up with the idea of extreme juxtaposition – but the idea itself isn’t funny.

The real question is how somebody comes to stumble across this video in the first place…

digg:

That’s the thing. I’ve seen a lot of these, poorly done, and they’re not worth it. But they did a great job of syncing her movements and even her lips to the cadence of the death metal. And I appreciate that all the more.

[...] Kelly Clarkson: Harcore! [...]

I myself prefer “Alf Metal”.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fuduUvfjw_s

sounds like she was stuck in an elevator with a group of O’ness worshippers for 10 hrs.